According to the Toronto Police Service Board, members and executives of the TPA are, “like every municipal police officer, prohibited from endorsing or opposing candidates in an election.”
The Police Association of Ontario and the Ontario Provincial Police Association have also publicly backed Ford.
To play on Chow’s response from 2 years ago, “the police don’t get to choose our new Premier. We do.”
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Nitpick, but I take issue with “Toronto Police Union” in headlines (and jfc don’t just fix it in the byline). The only reason they’re ever in the headlines is for egregious shit, and it gives real unions a bad name. (For anyone scrolling by who didn’t know, Toronto police aren’t allowed to have a union, because obviously they’d have WAY too much power if they did, so they spit on that by having one anyway and calling it a labour Association).
So gross! Never forget him endorsing his favourite copper Mark Saunders for mayor.
To play on Chow’s response from 2 years ago, “the police don’t get to choose our new Premier. We do.”
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Nitpick, but I take issue with “Toronto Police Union” in headlines (and jfc don’t just fix it in the byline). The only reason they’re ever in the headlines is for egregious shit, and it gives real unions a bad name. (For anyone scrolling by who didn’t know, Toronto police aren’t allowed to have a union, because obviously they’d have WAY too much power if they did, so they spit on that by having one anyway and calling it a labour Association).